The Palace said it supports the bill on the registration of prepaid SIM cards.
“According
to NTC (National Telecommunications Commission) Commissioner (Gamaliel)
Cordova, it is preferable that a law be passed requiring SIM card
registration. The Executive branch has manifested its support to
proposed bills that are now being discussed in Congress,” Presidential
Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. said.
There have been calls to require the registration of prepaid SIM cards to preempt and combat criminality.
Authorities
have cited the bombing incident in Cagayan de Oro in 2013, wherein
perpetrators built an improvised bomb out of mortar shell and used a
cellphone with a prepaid SIM card as trigger. Eight were killed and 40
others were injured in the incident.
There is an existing
NTC directive that requires the registration of prepaid SIM cards but
this was challenged by telecommunications companies.
The
Supreme Court has favored the telecommunications companies and has
issued a temporary restraining order against the directive. (PCOO News
Release)
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